Did Plato hide a message in plain sight? Thony investigates and brings it back to Galileo. Jay Kennedy’s argument that there are numerical codes in the Platonic dialogues is uncannily similar to a view presented by my old lecturer, John Bigelow, but John’s is better argued and defended, I think. He thinks, if I read him correctly, that Plato was breaking the Pythagorean exoteric circle in a guarded fashion.

Kevin Zelnio has an excellent and rewritten post on how grant reviews are retarding science. Not news to those in the field, I think, but thoughtful.

I didn’t think Categorical Imperatives where empirical thingies. I thought that they were obvious on first blush. (Forgive my ignorance as I’ve only read about them via Mackie and I’ve drank a lot of beer since then.)

Did anyone doubt that Australia was tectonically active? I mean, Newcastle earthquake. Lots of tremors in Victoria over recent years. Monaro uplift. The newer volcanics (which the article mentions) that stretch from north of Melbourne (where I live) down through western Victoria (where I grew up) to the border with South Australia. Just a few examples.

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